Scott Adams - The Father of Adventure Games - The Retro Hour EP59
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
We talk about the dawn of home computers and games with the legendary Scott Adams, founder of Adventure International.
Scott's website: http://www.msadams.com/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I can't believe it. |
| 0:03.5 | Max has asked me to move in with him. |
| 0:05.9 | I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great. |
| 0:09.8 | Did you hear that, Joe? |
| 0:11.5 | Yes, thanks for letting us know. |
| 0:14.3 | I see you've updated your universal credit claim. |
| 0:17.1 | Now you're going to be living together. |
| 0:23.6 | If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, tell us too to avoid a penalty. Search tell DWP. Hello and welcome to the |
| 0:31.3 | Retro Hour podcast episode number 59, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me Dan Wood Wood. And me, Ravi Abbott. And this is a full one-hour episode of The Retro Hour. Yeah, you did upload a two-minute episode onto YouTube, wasn't it? For those that don't know, I mean, if you listen on iTunes or SoundCloud, you might not know about this. But every week, we do actually put just the audio of the show onto YouTube. Yeah. to make it easy for people that, you know, followers on YouTube and that kind of thing and don't want to go to podcast clients. So last week, a bit of a rush on Friday. I went back home for a boy's weekend with my dad, my uncle, my brother. So I left my Mac rendering the video, set it to what to upload from I-movie afterwards. So right, job done. Got in the car. Get to about Sheffield on the M1. |
| 1:12.1 | All of a sudden my phone's like, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. I'm like, what is going on here? And then I kind of a little glance, you know, when I got to, like, a stop in the traffic. And it said, like, shortest episode of the retro hour ever. Yeah, Guru Meditation. Yeah, timer device says guru meditation was another one. |
| 1:27.6 | So I've no idea what happened. |
| 1:29.8 | I think Google's to meditation was another one. |
| 1:27.6 | So I've no idea what happened. |
| 1:29.8 | I think Google's to blame for that one. |
| 1:32.1 | Or Apple. |
| 1:33.4 | Whoever it was, we did have a two-minute episode at the retro room last week. |
| 1:37.1 | So I finally got it fixed on Sunday night when I got back, but apologies. |
| 1:40.9 | I'll make sure this week's show is a full duration. |
| 1:42.8 | Because you will not want to miss a minute of this week's show is a full duration. Because you will not want to miss |
| 1:44.4 | a minute of this week's show when you hear who our special guest is. Now, our special guest is |
| 1:49.9 | just simply amazing this week. We've got Scott Adams and he is pretty much the father of adventure games, |
| 1:56.3 | the father of computer games really, because he did the first adventure game the first games company and the first |
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